]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Environmental Economics Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190226?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Evidence is mounting that Beijing uses inconsistencies in international trade rules to spur its own economy at the expense of others.... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:28:09 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190226?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/joel-makower-two-steps-forward/189873?rsstype=latest&cid=56 I've had the good fortune to view the world through a Japanese lens over the past 10 days specifically, the worlds of green business and clean technology, about which I've come to Japan to speak.My host is the U.S. State Department, whose Office ... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:09:33 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/joel-makower-two-steps-forward/189873?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189882?rsstype=latest&cid=56 As a followup to yesterday's post about the Super Cycle Oscillator pointing to several more years of bad real returns in the equity market Barron's published a short article drawing the same conclusion using what appears to be a completely different ... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:41:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189882?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Earlier in the week Barry Ritholtz posted this chart from Bronson Capital Markets Research. It shows 139 years of nominal returns for equities (probably somewhat familiar to you) along with 139 years of real returns.The real return component is calle... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=latest&cid=56 TAKE ACTION!Rainforest Action Network [search] is a key supporter of failed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] efforts to sustainably log tens of millions of hectares of primary and old-growth forests for lawn furniture, toilet paper and othe... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:43:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/institutional-economics/189871?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Der Spiegel on the official lies that underpin European Monetary Union:Since joining the euro zone, the 16 euro countries have violated the deficit rule, under which net new debt cannot exceed 3 percent of GDP, 43 times. Most of the infractions have ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:33:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/institutional-economics/189871?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189827?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Some students wanted to attend the protest but may have faced possible retribution from their instructors. I support the rally but still need to go to my classes, environmental economics major Alisa Rudnick said. I will join in after my sched... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189827?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190010?rsstype=latest&cid=56 So, without a doubt, nuclear power fails the safety, economic and reliability tests. Is it, however, flexible? Not so much.Over the last year it became much more clear that the problem with nuclear (and coal) power stations is that they are too infle... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:44:38 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190010?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190011?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:Academics demand independent inquiry into new nuclear reactors Pressure on the government to organise an independent inquiry into a new generation of nuclear power stations will intensify today with a ca... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:36:15 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190011?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189829?rsstype=latest&cid=56 From the inbox:As a WEAI member, we wanted you to be the first to know that a new paper by Paul Krugman has just become available in Economic Inquiry through Wiley Interscience Early View. This hilarious paper, The Theory of Interstellar Trade, ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:42:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189829?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189835?rsstype=latest&cid=56 The title of the book/film would be something like: And the rivers turned to blood (Falls Lake cleanup will be costly, contentious): Five years after the need for a cleanup was recognized by the state legislature, the state Environmental Management... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:49:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189835?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190015?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Trouble, or so they say, comes in threes and so it is for the designs of the so-called new third generation of nuclear reactors.Look at AREVA s European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) design. Two are currently being right now one in Finland and on... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:17:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190015?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189886?rsstype=latest&cid=56 A site called Simolean Sense posted a lengthy interview with James Montier who of course now works at GMO. Montier's comments were really a smorgasbord behavioral observations, assessments of psychological obstacles and other useful nuggets.First up ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189886?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189839?rsstype=latest&cid=56 From ESPN.com:As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife,Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled Transition Green shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What hashappened since suggests that the [Inter... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:41:12 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189839?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189888?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Karl Denninger raises some interesting points in noting a consistent thread with the handful (sometimes more) banks that fail every weekend. In the post he details the extent to which the value of assets were overstated. For example;Waterford Bank, ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:09:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189888?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/189662?rsstype=latest&cid=56 France has not only weathered the global economic storm but has emerged as one of the strongest economies in Europe.... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:30:07 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/189662?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/189177?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Repeating my introduction to the original post: Gavin Kennedy continues his battle to eradicate misconceptions about Adam Smith :More of Adam Smith's Views of State Activity, by Gavin Kennedy: Scott Sumner ... writes a lively Blog, The Money Illusio... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:45:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/189177?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=56 When Duke Energy and ENN Group announced their partnership to accelerate development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Duke CEO Jim Rogers explained that We must move at 'China speed' to com... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/real-climate/189465?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Methane is like the radical wing of the carbon cycle, in today's atmosphere a stronger greenhouse gas per molecule than CO2, and an atmospheric concentration that can change more quickly than CO2 can. There has been a lot of press coverage of a new ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/real-climate/189465?rsstype=latest&cid=56 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189315?rsstype=latest&cid=56 Yesterday I mentioned an article on Seeking Alpha where some of the comments seemed to be taking to heart some of the same things I've been writing about in terms of how the concept of retirement is evolving, evolving quite rapidly I'd say. I was enc... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:02:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189315?rsstype=latest&cid=56